Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 10, 2021
The world around us is being disrupted by the acceleration of technology into more industries and more consumer applications. In 2001 companies IPO’d very quickly if they were working, by 2011 IPOs had slowed down to the point that in 2013 Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures astutely called billion-dollar outcomes “unicorns.”
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 19, 2020
Competitors can leapfrog you on features or outspend you on customer acquisitions but communities are very hard to disrupt. Ryan Smith, the founder of Qualtrics, also invested and has joined the board of directors. Community-building is advice I give to nearly every startup team with whom I work. And it would be?—?but
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Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 3, 2013
I started announcing my Twitter thesis back in 2011 (still serves as a useful read today). years ago and still rings true today, stating the unique Twitter attributes that are disruptive: Real time. It is the oil pipeline explosion in Nigeria that is Tweeted before people even know a disruption may happen. ” What gives?
Revolution
JANUARY 9, 2019
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Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 7, 2016
And honestly it was the single biggest roadblock at Upfront when we raised out fourth fund in 2011. The founding partner of Upfront, Yves Sisteron, has been a mentor for me since 1999 and was on the board of my first company. Many potential investors asked me, “Aren’t you just going to leave and form your own fund?”
TechCrunch
JANUARY 7, 2021
It will be interesting to see how newer entrants in the SaaS banking-platform space disrupt what are, effectively, becoming incumbents in their own right: Mambu is now approaching 10 years old (it was founded in 2011). That could lead to consolidation, too.
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 9, 2011
So the industry formed around a day of the week when all partners could avoid having company board meetings or traveling. I started showing my partners more deals that I found interesting and doing loads of analysis on the future of markets I thought were ripe for disruption. I have always believed that TV was ripe for disruption.
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